Politics is a funny animal and the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009 could still raise its head in another form. But it does look very promising at this time that this bill may be finally dead.

And much of the credit goes to Box Turtle Bulletin, and especially to you personally.

This has been a TREMENDOUSLY time consuming effort involving a matter that surely no one here ever considered to be our bailiwick, involving connections that we could not assume we could even develop, and creating allies that were unimaginable. Going into this two years ago we never dreamed of reaching the State Department, much less having statements from the President and many governments around the world.

It has been a lot of work, but you must be feeling tremendous satisfaction. I certainly do for my much less significant role.

Letâ€™s not forget the genesis of this hateful mess. We need to keep remembering just how we got to this point. BTB should be proud of its accomplishments but it should never lose focus on those who perpetrated this fraud in the first place.

Sometimes I’d open my reader and think, O God not more Uganda. I have a daily life to lead and all the rest. But you guys stuck with it, and by sticking with it, you lead all the rest of us to stick with it with you. That’s a great achievement. Whatever happens now, we in the West know so much more about our brothers and sisters in Africa – and they know increasingly more about us – the old status quo can never return. Thanks to you – both of you. And kudos too, and thanks, to Warren Throckmorten, who once he began never let up. My regards especially to the Ugandan readers of this blog who risked their well-being to keep us informed. Thank you, friends.

I agree with Timothy but, as Jim posted on Wednesday, the past week has shown up both the mainstream media and also some very big, NYC human rights groups in terms of the information flow out of Uganda and what they’ve been saying. Given the seriousness of what’s been happening (the potential impact elsewhere for example) to HAVE to rely on Jim and Warren Throckmorton for the facts is pretty outrageous IMO.

Absolutely agreed. I have been so impressed with your constant coverage of the Ugandan bill–from the anti-gay conference that started it all to the bill’s first introduction in Parliament–*long* before news of the bill entered into the mainstream media. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say your coverage played a principal role (if not the chief role) in getting this story noticed by the mainstream news, ultimately drawing the international attention that got the bill shut down.

I remember the first time I heard the bill mentioned on NPR while I was driving home from work and thinking that it was BTB coverage that likely brought it to that networks’ attention.

Thank you for all the times you corrected the mainstream media when the AP would release incorrect stories saying the execution clause had been dropped or the bill tabled.

In this original BTB Investigation, we unveil the tragic story of Kirk Murphy, a four-year-old boy who was treated for “cross-gender disturbance” in 1970 by a young grad student by the name of George Rekers. This story is a stark reminder that there are severe and damaging consequences when therapists try to ensure that boys will be boys.

When we first reported on three American anti-gay activists traveling to Kampala for a three-day conference, we had no idea that it would be the first report of a long string of events leading to a proposal to institute the death penalty for LGBT people. But that is exactly what happened. In this report, we review our collection of more than 500 posts to tell the story of one nation’s embrace of hatred toward gay people. This report will be updated continuously as events continue to unfold. Check here for the latest updates.

In 2005, the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote that “[Paul] Cameron’s ‘science’ echoes Nazi Germany.” What the SPLC didn”t know was Cameron doesn’t just “echo” Nazi Germany. He quoted extensively from one of the Final Solution’s architects. This puts his fascination with quarantines, mandatory tattoos, and extermination being a “plausible idea” in a whole new and deeply disturbing light.

From the Inside: Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out”

On February 10, I attended an all-day “Love Won Out” ex-gay conference in Phoenix, put on by Focus on the Family and Exodus International. In this series of reports, I talk about what I learned there: the people who go to these conferences, the things that they hear, and what this all means for them, their families and for the rest of us.

Using the same research methods employed by most anti-gay political pressure groups, we examine the statistics and the case studies that dispel many of the myths about heterosexuality. Download your copy today!

Anti-gay activists often charge that gay men and women pose a threat to children. In this report, we explore the supposed connection between homosexuality and child sexual abuse, the conclusions reached by the most knowledgeable professionals in the field, and how anti-gay activists continue to ignore their findings. This has tremendous consequences, not just for gay men and women, but more importantly for the safety of all our children.

Anti-gay activists often cite the “Dutch Study” to claim that gay unions last only about 1½ years and that the these men have an average of eight additional partners per year outside of their steady relationship. In this report, we will take you step by step into the study to see whether the claims are true.

Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council submitted an Amicus Brief to the Maryland Court of Appeals as that court prepared to consider the issue of gay marriage. We examine just one small section of that brief to reveal the junk science and fraudulent claims of the Family “Research” Council.

The FBI’s annual Hate Crime Statistics aren’t as complete as they ought to be, and their report for 2004 was no exception. In fact, their most recent report has quite a few glaring holes. Holes big enough for Daniel Fetty to fall through.